I wondered aloud to some administrators and teachers later if the stiff policies spoke volumes about what they weren’t teaching in their classrooms K-12 as their students went through the system. I mean wouldn’t it seem that if kids were taught throughout the curriculum about the ethical and appropriate use of computers and the Internet that much more of that policy could be spent going over what students could actually do with the computer rather than the “don’t dos” that were listed? At that point, we’d probably have to change the name to an “Admirable Use Policy” or something, but imagine if students walked in on the first day of class, picked up that policy and read things like:
Contents contributed and discussions participated by Scott Shephard
Free download YouTube and play FLV for Mac OS - 13 views
NEA - Rights Watch - 10 views
Connected Admin - 17 views
Literacy Log - Resources and Strategies for All Kinds of Teachers: PhotoGrab High Frequ... - 23 views
Single-media schools, multimedia world - Dangerously Irrelevant - 13 views
UCSD: Global Information Industry Center - 3 views
http://www.GoogleLitTrips.com - 31 views
Pixton™ - Create web comic strips online - 15 views
1 - 17 of 17
Showing 20▼ items per page